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Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an attractive married woman and mother--while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society--with its racist, classist, hyper violent tendencies--and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780811235051
  • ISBN-10: 081123505X
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: April 2023
  • Dimensions: 7.97 x 5.47 x 0.32 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.32 pounds
  • Page Count: 128

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